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the Service in an Anglican Church; De Soto discovering the Mississippi; St. Paul on Mars Hill; Battle of Gettysburg; Macbeth meditating the Murder of Duncan, King Lear with Gloucester and Edward, Cupid Reposing, Bacchus, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia; Lady Macbeth, T. Dolan, ib.; Sicilian Vespers, A. J. Drexel, ib.; Embarkation of Columbus, Pennsylvania Academy, ib.; Trial of Sir Henry Vane, Christian Martyrs, Hypatia, Amy Robsart interceding for Leicester, The Landsknecht (1876); Touchstone and Audrey, in "As You Like It" (1880); Bacchantes (1884).—Tuckerman 437.
RÖTING, JULIUS, born in Dresden,
Sept. 7, 1821 (Sept. 13, 1822?). History
and portrait painter, pupil of Dresden Academy
under Bendemann, then studied in Düsseldorf,
where he became professor at the
Academy. Member of Berlin and Vienna
Academies. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1855.
Gold medal, Berlin. Works: Columbus
before the Council at Salamanca (1851),
Dresden Gallery; Entombment (1866); Portraits
of the painters Leutze (1847); Lessing
(1851), Schadow (1852), Düsseldorf Gallery;
of the poet Arndt (several times, one in
Stettin Museum).—Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf.
K., 161.
ROTTA, ANTONIO, born at Goritz, Feb.
28, 1828. Genre painter, pupil of Academy
in Venice, where he settled. Medal, Paris,
3d class, 1878. Works: Cobbler; Match-Seller;
Bacchanal on the Lido in 1700;
The Sick Friend (1855); Bad Company;
The Only Friend (1869); Venetian Women
at Work; Agreeable Surprise (1878); Young
Brood (1881).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1879), ii. 369;
(1882), ii. 289; Müller, 451.
ROTTENHAMMER, JOHANN, born in
Munich in 1564, died in Augsburg in 1623.
German school; history painter, son and
pupil of Thomas Rottenhammer, and in
1582 pupil of Johann Donnauer; studied
in Venice after Tintoretto and visited Rome.
Jan Brueghel and Paul Bril employed
him to paint mythological or allegorical
figures in their landscapes. Works:
Pan and Syrinx, National Gallery, London;
Death of Adonis,
Diana and Callisto,
Louvre,
Paris; Madonna
(1604), Mars and
Venus (1604),
Amsterdam Museum;
Fall of
Phaëton (1604),
Christ delivering
Souls from Purgatory,
three others, Hague Museum; Madonna
and St. John, Rotterdam Museum;
The Four Elements Personified, Musée
Rath, Geneva; Apotheosis of St. Catharine,
Inn of the Three Moors, Augsburg; Poetry,
Music, Painting and Architecture, Berlin
Museum; Landscape with Nymphs, The
Golden Age (with Peeter Brueghel, the
younger), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Judgment
of Paris (1605), Marriage at Cana,
four others, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Diana
surprised by Actæon (1602), Venus and
Mars (1605), Adoration of the Shepherds
(1605), three others, Schleissheim Gallery;
Repose in Egypt (1597), Magdalen Penitent,
Schwerin Gallery; Last Judgment
with the Seven Works of Mercy, Stuttgart
Museum; Nativity (1608), Battle between
Centaurs and Lapithæ, four others, Museum,
Vienna; Erection of Brazen Serpent,
Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Adam and Eve
in Paradise (with Brueghel), Schönborn
Gallery, ib.; others in Galleries of Aschaffenburg,
Bamberg (3), Carlsruhe, Cassel (6),
Copenhagen, Dresden, Gotha, Weimar, and
Wiesbaden (2); Hermitage, St. Peterburg
(3); Historical Society, New York; The
Seasons, Holy Family (2), Mars and Venus
ensnared by Vulcan, Banquet of the Gods
(2), Blenheim sale, London, 1886.—Ch.